Canva: the 360 agent-readiness check
Canva scores 42 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan, a D, read 9 November 2026. Of the five surfaces an agent acts on, Ora found 3: a public API, OAuth, a command line. An MCP server and a CLI behind a door that turns every agent away.
On 9 November 2026 the public site at canva.com scored 42 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan, a D, in Ora's Productivity category. Ora probes a site the way an agent would: it requests pages with the agents' own user agents, reads robots.txt, looks for the files agents read, and tries the API, MCP and payment surfaces. This check reads the act layer first, because that is what the directory records, then the door, what an agent can read, and whether the company is found and recommended. Ora's one-line summary: Bot detection turns agents away at the door, and the homepage shows no content without JavaScript.
The score
| Layer | Asks | Points | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usability | Can agents use it | 35 of 68 | 51% |
| Access | Can agents read it | 5 of 53 | 9% |
| Discovery | Can agents find and recommend it | 12 of 17 | 71% |
| Payments | Can agents pay | 0 of 0 | none apply |
| Total | Grade D | 42 of 100 | 42% |
What an agent can do
The surfaces an agent acts on: an API it can find and call, an MCP server, an agent card, OAuth metadata, a command line. This is the layer the directory records, so it comes first.
In the directory, Canva sign-in required, tools not seen, not counted; the connector run of 4 November 2026 is on the entry page. Ora's MCP server check for the same domain reads partial; the two look for different things, the directory for a server that answers a handshake and lists tools, Ora for a server it can find from the site.
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server / manifest mcp-server | Partial | 5 of 6 | MCP server detected at https://mcp.canva.com/mcp; it requires authentication. Presence is verified (5/6), but Ora could not inspect its tools or verify access scopes without credentials. |
| MCP well-known discovery mcp-well-known-discovery | Partial | 1 of 2 | MCP server at https://mcp.canva.com/mcp - list its server card, hosted on your own domain, in /.well-known/ai-catalog.json so MCP clients can discover it |
| Public API with reachable endpoints public-api | Pass | 7 of 7 | GraphQL endpoint at https://canva.com/graphql is reachable; introspection requires authentication (API key / OAuth), which is expected for agent access. Best-of-protocols score: 7/7. |
| Public API/docs linked from homepage public-api-docs | Partial | 0 of 3 | Homepage blocked by WAF - cannot check for docs links |
| Developer portal developer-portal | Fail | 0 of 6 | No developer portal found |
| OpenAPI spec published openapi-spec | Fail | 0 of 7 | No OpenAPI/Swagger specification found |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) api-catalog-rfc9727 | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /.well-known/api-catalog found (RFC 9727) |
| A2A / agent-card a2a-agent-card | Fail | 0 of 2 | No A2A agent card found at /.well-known/agent-card.json |
| Agent discovery file agent-discovery-file | Fail | 0 of 2 | No agent discovery file found |
| OAuth 2.0 support oauth-support | Pass | 5 of 5 | OAuth authorization server metadata at https://mcp.canva.com |
| OAuth Protected Resource metadata (RFC 9728) oauth-protected-resource | Pass | 2 of 2 | no detail published |
| auth.md exists auth-md-exists | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /auth.md found at site root |
| WebMCP support webmcp | Fail | 0 of 5 | No WebMCP support detected - no document.modelContext / navigator.modelContext usage found |
| NLWeb /ask endpoint nlweb-ask | Pass | 1 of 1 | NLWeb /ask endpoint exists but requires authentication (HTTP 403, via GET) |
| CLI tool available cli-tool | Pass | 3 of 3 | CLI package found on npm: @canva/cli |
| Multi-language SDK packages rest-sdk-packages | Partial | 1 of 3 | SDK package found only in npm |
| Rate limit response headers rate-limit-headers | Fail | 0 of 2 | GraphQL introspection auth-gated and no header convention documented on GraphQL-tagged pages |
| Idempotency-Key support idempotency-key-support | Fail | 0 of 3 | GraphQL introspection auth-gated and no idempotency documentation found on GraphQL-tagged pages |
| JSON error responses json-error-responses | Pass | 4 of 4 | no detail published |
At the door
What the site answers when a request arrives with an agent's user agent, and what robots.txt says to agents. 3 checks in this group do not apply to this site and are left out.
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not blocked by bot detection bot-detection | Partial | 0 of 2 | Bot management challenged ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot. A challenge is an identity check that verified crawlers pass, |
| Agent crawler reachability agent-crawler-reachability | Partial | 0 of 2 | Bot management challenged ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot - a challenge is an identity check verified crawlers pass, so reachability is undetermined rather than blocked (ChatGPT-User: challenged, |
| robots.txt AI crawler policy robots-ai-policy-quality | Pass | 2 of 2 | AI search crawlers: allowed in 3 of 3 checks (3 crawlers on 1 page). AI training crawlers: allowed in 0 of 2 checks (2 crawlers on 1 page), not scored. |
| robots.txt agent-user policy robots-agent-user-policy | Pass | 2 of 2 | No applicable crawl or usage restriction found for 3 user-triggered agents (chatgpt-user, claude-user, perplexity-user) on 1 public page: https://canva.com/. Declared policy only; |
| Web Bot Auth directory web-bot-auth-directory | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory found |
What an agent can read
Whether the text is in the first response, what the site publishes for agents, and how it describes itself to them. 4 checks in this group do not apply to this site and are left out.
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Content without JavaScript content-no-js | Partial | 0 of 3 | Homepage blocked by WAF/security challenge - content not accessible to agents |
| Sitemap exists sitemap | Pass | 2 of 2 | Valid sitemap found at https://sitemap.canva.com/sitemap_index.xml with multiple sitemaps entries |
| llms.txt exists llms-txt-exists | Fail | 0 of 1 | No llms.txt found at /llms.txt or /.well-known/llms.txt. |
| llms.txt formatting llms-txt-formatting | Fail | 0 of 2 | No llms.txt found to evaluate quality |
| Markdown agent docs markdown-negotiation | Fail | 0 of 1 | Missing markdown content negotiation. Homepage returned text/html when probed with Accept: text/markdown (expected text/markdown), and none of the well-known root paths (/llms.md, /auth.md, /agents.md, /developers.md, |
| Markdown URL fallback markdown-url-fallback | Fail | 0 of 2 | Homepage does not support the .md suffix. Probed https://canva.com/index.md and it did not return markdown (expected text/markdown content-type or a heading-led non-HTML body). |
| Agent mode view agent-mode-view | Fail | 0 of 2 | No agent mode view detected at ?mode=agent (optional) |
| JSON-LD structured data json-ld | Partial | 0 of 4 | Homepage blocked by WAF - cannot check structured data |
| Organization schema completeness org-schema-completeness | Partial | 0 of 2 | Homepage blocked by WAF - cannot check Organization schema |
| JSON-LD entity linking (sameAs) json-ld-entity-linking | Partial | 0 of 2 | Homepage blocked by WAF - cannot check entity linking |
| Schema type breadth schema-type-breadth | Partial | 0 of 2 | Homepage blocked by WAF - cannot check schema types |
| Metadata completeness metadata-completeness | Partial | 0 of 2 | Homepage blocked by WAF - cannot check metadata |
| Agent instruction / when-to-use agent-instruction | Fail | 0 of 3 | No agent instruction file with when-to-use guidance found |
Found and recommended
Whether an assistant can find the company by name, confirm what it is, and see it in the registries agents read.
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brand name discoverability brand-search-accuracy | Partial | 1 of 3 | canva.com ranks #9 for "canva" (searched your brand name alone: we could not read a product term from your site) |
| Wikipedia / Wikidata entity presence wikipedia-presence | Pass | 4 of 4 | Wikipedia "Canva" and Wikidata Q23498528 both verified - domain confirmed on both sources |
| Developer resource discoverability agentic-search-specific | Partial | 2 of 3 | In a search for your API docs, your docs came up at #6 (https://www.canva.com/developers). In a search for your MCP server, SDK or CLI, none of the 10 results is your own, although the scan found one on your site |
| Listed in MCP registries mcp-registry-listed | Fail | 0 of 1 | No verified entry in the official MCP Registry or on Smithery, and no npm or PyPI package of yours that runs as an MCP server. To pass, |
| NPM/PyPI SDK package npm-sdk-package | Pass | 1 of 1 | no detail published |
| ChatGPT app listed chatgpt-app-listed | Pass | 2 of 2 | no detail published |
| Registry branding registry-branding | Fail | 0 of 2 | No registry branding (name, icon, description) found |
| Listed on skills.sh skills-sh-listed | Pass | 1 of 1 | no detail published |
| ARD discovery ard-catalog | Fail | 0 of 1 | No /.well-known/ard.json, no same-site rel="ard" link, and no legacy /.well-known/ai-catalog.json |
Payments
The agent payment protocols Ora probes for. A site that sells nothing has nothing here, and Ora scores the layer out of zero when none applies. None of the 6 payment checks applied to canva.com.
The fixes worth most points
Ora attaches an estimate to each failing or partial check: how many points the site would gain by passing it. These are the 5 with the largest estimates for Canva, with what Ora observed. The wording of each fix is Ora's; the 28 checks it runs on an MCP server are listed with their layer and tier.
- OpenAPI spec published: fail, 0 of 7, about 4.4 points to gain. Ora saw: No OpenAPI/Swagger specification found
- Developer portal: fail, 0 of 6, about 3.8 points to gain. Ora saw: No developer portal found
- Scoped permissions: fail, 0 of 5, about 3.3 points to gain. Ora saw: No declared OAuth scopes, security schemes, or scoped-permission documentation found
- WebMCP support: fail, 0 of 5, about 3.3 points to gain. Ora saw: No WebMCP support detected - no document.modelContext / navigator.modelContext usage found
- Brand name discoverability: partial, 1 of 3, about 2.6 points to gain. Ora saw: canva.com ranks #9 for "canva" (searched your brand name alone: we could not read a product term from your site)
Our read
Canva's 42 is a door problem with an act layer behind it. Bot management challenged ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-User and PerplexityBot, the home page came back as a security challenge, and so the content, the structured data and the documentation-link checks could not be read; the Access layer scores 5 of 53. What Ora found past the wall is more than the D suggests: an MCP server at mcp.canva.com/mcp that answers and requires authentication, OAuth authorization server metadata on the same host, a reachable GraphQL endpoint with gated introspection, @canva/cli on npm and an SDK on npm. It found neither a developer portal nor an OpenAPI specification, and neither declared scopes nor an llms.txt. The brand search places canva.com ninth for its own name. The design tool with the largest consumer audience in this set is invisible to the agents its users will send; letting the named agents through is the whole first fix.
Test your own surfaces
The scan above is free and needs no account: enter a domain at ora.ai and read the same four layers for your own site. For an MCP server, Ora scans the server URL itself and runs 28 of its 132 public checks on it, which is why it is the check this directory recommends; the reasons, the limits and the alternatives are on their own page. The command below runs the same audit from a terminal and exits with 1 under the score you set, so it can gate a deploy.
npx ax@0.10 audit https://example.com --min-score 70All 360 checks, one company a day. Corrections to the corrections page.